10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NINE-DAYS WONDER»
Discover the use of
nine-days wonder in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nine-days wonder and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Will Kemp, the merriest dancer in England, boasts that he can dance from London to Norwich in ten days.
Marilyn Hollinshead, 1994
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A
Nine-
Days'
Wonder: A Novelette (1875)
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The
Nine Days'Queen. A Dramatic Poem [in Four Acts].
Yes, truly, sir,— A nine days' wonder, like the rest of it. But you must boast a
harder heart than I, To care to wonder at it. Mine has melted, Like any woman's,
pouring at mine eyes, To think of what a world of misery, Shaken, and pressed,
and ...
Mrs. Fanny Ash PRIDEAUX, 1869
l l party. The Boston Tea Party was once nlance agents, would go very far to
secure nine days' wonder, but it turned the fate of greater caution and safety. We
regret the a continent, and is a wonder still. M. Louis 1 loss in the library of what ...
The General Strike in England, 1926 - that short period is one of the most significant in the annals of English social history.
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Mystic London: Spiritualism in the Metropolis
I expected to find Roan Street the observed of all observers, but the nine days'
wonder was over since what Dickens called the "ink-widge." Indeed, a homicide
has ceased to be a nine days' wonder now. This only happened on Saturday;
and ...
THE NINE DAYS' WONDER. " LAUGH on ! laugh on, Rosamond !" cried Godfrey.
" Why not laugh in this world, at every thing and every body that is ridiculous." "
But oh, my dear Godfrey ! I must not laugh at my friends" said Rosamond, ...
Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, 1825
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Men of Invention and Industry
It will be only a nine days' wonder, and afterwards a Columbus's egg." It was,
however, more than a nine days' wonder; for wood long continued to be thought
the only material capable of floating. Although Wilkinson's iron vessels continued
to ...
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Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
The name by which Jane Grey is universally remembered says it all: 'the nine
days queen' - not so much because she ruled for nine days (the more correct
figure is thirteen), but because her reign was a proverbial 'nine days wonder'.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NINE-DAYS WONDER»
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nine-days wonder is used in the context of the following news items.
The shops of old Penicuik – part 3
So the Biro was consigned to oblivion as a nine-days wonder! Dynamic Dart Advertisement. The shops thinned out as you moved up the Kirkhill ... «MidLothian Advertiser, Jul 15»
The BBC's first Man in Moscow
A news despatch would certainly make an impact, but it was highly likely to prove a nine-days wonder. I seemed to me sensible to keep my ... «BBC News, Oct 13»
